How to stop IE7 clearing floats because of width property

[NickM]

I have a containing element with a number of floated elements in it. That containing element also has a percentage width value applied to it.In IE7, content following the element containing the floats is cleared because of the width value which gives it hasLayout (I think!).I don't want the containing element to haveLayout, but I do need it to have an explicit width. Is there a way of working around this problem in IE7, effectively forcing hasLayout=false.